[Spencer]

It’s a far cry from the days of Andrew Edwards doing a non-stop four speech programme as I remember from snow days of old. West Yorkshire’s roads were in chaos from lunchtime for a few hours, but that just wasn’t reflected on air. Sad.

You’ve reminded me of one time when I worked there in the mid to late 90s, and major, heavy snow was forecast for West Yorkshire overnight, so the whole breakfast show was planned around this, with reporters stationed around the county. I think at least one was put up in a remote B&B to ensure they could be on location from 6am.

Not a flake of snow fell.

And so the whole show was a series of links to reporters describing how there was none of the expected snow where they were. It was excruciating. Although hard to imagine such effort going into BBC LR programming these days.